To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph, 22 February 1805
From Ellen Wayles Randolph
Feb 22, 1805
My Dear Grand Papa
I recieved your letter and am very much obliged to you for it, as it is very seldom that I get one you cannot think how glad I was at it. I am very much obliged to you for the Bantams you promised me and will take great care of them. I go on very slowly with my French for I have got through but one book of Telemachus but I hope that I shall now go on better since Mamas health is so much better that she is able to hear us our lessons regularly. give my love to Papa and mrs H Smith. adieu my Dear grand Papa believe me to be your affectionate grand Daughter
Ellen Wayles Randolph.
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 27 Feb. from Edgehill and so recorded in SJL.
TJ’s letter, recorded in SJL as written 11 Feb., has not been found.
Bantams you promised me: see TJ to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 Nov. 1804.
Telemachus: the classic French tale Les aventures de Télémaque by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon.
mrs H Smith: probably Margaret Bayard Smith, wife of Samuel Harrison Smith.